Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,823, Levi Farnsworth, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass.
4 Farnsworth, Levi
NUMBER
S. 34823
CONTENTS

13-920 R Massachusetts
Levi Farnsworth of Shirley in the state of Mass who was a Sergeant in the regiment commanded by Colonel Bigelow of the Mass. line, for the term of 3 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 3 rd of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 7 th of July 1819 and sent to Samuel Dana Esq Groton .
Meals. Arrears to 4th of March 1819 — $8.49 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sep 1819  48. — Sept 19 28 4  $136.49 30 31
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. } def between Rev 44. 24 3/4 & Revolutionary pension
On this account of Pension... Samuel Dana Esq... Groton... 1819

Groton Ct June 15 Free
Daniel Parker Esquire Adj t Insp. Gen. U.S. Army Washington City.
Dear
Adm

Groton June 15 th 1819.
Dear Sir,
It is with reluctance, Sir, that I trouble you with this letter, but thought it a duty a duty perhaps the most imperative of any in the world that of in clearing through you to redress an injured man no less than a father - Some time in the year 1795 or 6 having been a soldier of the revolution as you may recollect applied for a pension from the government having been wounded at the battle of Saratoga it was found on examining the records in the department of war that he was returned a deserter. it then became necessary he should get that thing at rights which he did after great trouble & expense in procuring documents of various persons which documents now are on the files of the war department - After the act of congress of March 18 th 1818. I advised him to apply to be put upon the same footing provided by law for invalid pensions of the revolutionaries - was contained in the second of the act aforesaid - About a year ago last April I think he made application accordingly before the Hon. Samuel Duncal and has been again returned as a deserter since that time with my assistance he has made a brief sketch of the facts contained in the documents.

before alluded to and a reference to the time &c to the fact of read - What I meant of you Sir is that you will use your influence to set this matter to rights & oblige a friend to yourself & your family. I am aware Sir, that such communications as this must be very troublesome to you in your situation & should by no means have troubled you under any other circumstances but they must be my apology. My father's name is Levi Harnsworth of Shirley it is very probable you will recollect him.
Daniel Parker Esq. Adj Insp Gen. U. S. A.
With high respect I am your very humble & ob- edient Servt.
Levi Harnsworth

Indio June 10 th 1879.
Dear Friend.
I have a request
Release to us of the papers in the Revolutionary soldier - our Friend.
June 20 1879
Yours truly yours

Loeri Farnsworth
Markey
13920
The Clerk of July 19 certify the opinion of the Court as to the full value of the real & personal estate mentioned in the schedule
plan of residence
see the case N o 106
(Em)

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
MIDDLESEX ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Concord, within and for the County of Middlesex, on the second Monday of June A. D. 1820
Before the Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Esquire, Chief Justice, and
WILLIAM WETMORE, and } Associate Justices STEPHEN MINOT, Esquires, } of said Court.
In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Levi Farnsworth resident in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 13.920 now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,
“WAR DEPARTMENT.....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.”
“I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818, Levi Farnsworth ————— late a Private in the army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the third day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
“Given at the War Office of the United States, this Seventh day of July one thousand eight hundred and nineteen
J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War,”
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit,
  Real estate viz an estate for his own life and that of his wife Abigail in about five acres of land with a small house & barn thereon of the clear yearly income of - - - - - $ 10.00   Personal estate viz. 2 cows $ 32.00 - - - - - 32.00   4 sheep & 5 lambs 10.00 2 tables 3.00 5 old chairs 1.00 14.00   brockery 1.00 knives & forks .25 axe & line .50 1.75   2 chests 2.00 1 plough & chains 4.00 - - - - - 6.00   Shovel tongs & handirons 1.00 clock 10.00 6 cyder barrels 1.50 - - - - - } 12.50   Bellows .33 1 pot .75 1 kettle 1.50 1 teakettle .65 - - - - - 3.23   1 Bread trough .50 Sieve .25 - - - - - .75   $ 70.23 

Debts owing by said Farnsworth to sundry persons viz.
To Thomas Whitney Esq. on four several notes of hand the sum of - - - - - } $170.00
To Stephen Longley Esquire on two notes - - - - - 15.00
Amount of debts owed by said Farnsworth - - - - - $185.00
Levi Farnsworth.
And the said Levi Farnsworth having been first duly sworn according to law does on his oath declare that he served three years in the Revolutionary war as a private viz. from April 1777 to April 1780 - first in Capt. Joshua Brown's company in the Regiment commanded by Col. Simonds Bigelow Massachusetts line and afterwards in other corps as is particularly set forth in his original declaration on file in the war office dated April 3 d 1818 - was in the battles of Still water and Bemis' heights - was wounded in the arm at the latter that he is sixty two years of age a husbandman by occupation unable to perform much labour; that his family consists of the following persons viz. his wife Abigail aged fifty nine years and his daughter Lovina aged 18 years.
Levi Farnsworth.
Sworn & declared to before me
J. Dana Judge.

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Samuel Dana a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
I, Levi Farnsworth do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. So help me GOD.
Levi Farnsworth.
Middlesex ss. C. C. C. P. June Term, A. D. 1820
Then the abovenamed Levi Farnsworth took and subscribed the aforesaid Oath before me,
Samuel Dana, Judge of said Court.
I, ABRAHAM BIGLOW , Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath, and Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is seventy  is twenty dollars & twenty three cents - given to the Defendant's debts. He has also an annual income ten dollars.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Cambridge, in said County of Middlesex, on this 20th day of July 1820
Attr.
Abraham Biglow

Wed July 20, 1906
H. J. H.

Farnsworth, Levi
His name appears on a list of claimants to be placed on the pension list returned by the District Court for the District of Massachusetts, submitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of War on April 25, 1794, and printed in the American State Papers, class 9, page 109.
Rank: Private.
Regt: Col. Bigelow's
Disability: Wounded in the arm by a musket ball from the army of General Burgoyne.
When and where disabled: September, 1777, near Stillwater.
Residence: Shirley.
Monthly allowance: $2.22
Arrears due: $100
Remarks: This man enlisted April, 1777; invalided Jan. 26, 1779, and dischid April, 1780.

Oct. 13 "1906 W

Levi, Farnsworth
His name appears on a list of applicants for invalid pension returned by the District Court for the District of Massachusetts, submitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of War on December 31, 1794, and printed in the American State Papers, class 9, page 140.
Rank: Private
Regt: Colonel Timothy Bigelow's
Disability: Wounded by a ball, which fractured the bone of his left arm, and is now lodged there.
When and where disabled: September 19, 1777, Bunker's Heights.
To what pension entitled: One-half.
Remarks: Enlisted April 14, 1777, for three years; joined invalids Jan. 26, 1779; discharged April 14, 1780.
Evidence complete, excepting why he did not apply prior to the 11th December, 1788.

Lou Farnsworth
Deserted. not so!!
Rejected. !!! The hopes not so.
18115.

To the Honorable JOHN C. CALHOUN, Secretary of the Department of War of the United States.
I, the undersigned Samuel Dana , Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Middle Circuit, (comprehending the Counties of Essex and Middlesex) in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, being a Court of Record, duly established by Law, Do hereby certify, That on the Third day of April in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen  Levi Farnsworth Personally appeared and made and subscribed the declaration which is hereunto annexed.
from which it appears to me, that the said Levi Farnsworth did serve in the War of the REVOLUTION, against the common Enemy, upwards of nine months.
Wherefore, in pursuance of the directions of an Act of Congress, made and passed the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," I have transmitted the said Declaration to you the said Secretary, that such further proceedings may be had in the premises, as the said Act may require.
In testimony of all which, I have caused the Seal of said Court to be hereunto affixed.
Given under my hand within the said Circuit, the Third day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen Sam d Dana
I Samuel Dana. Chief Justice above described - Do further Certify, that Levi Farnsworth, who subscribed the annexed Declaration as a poor man, will entitled by reason of his subscription to the benefit of the Act of Congress aforesaid - Sam d Dana May 15. 1819

Levi Tansworth.

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
BE it remembered, that on this Third day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen before me, SAMUEL DANA , Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Middle Circuit, (comprehending the Counties of Essex and Middlesex, in the Commonwealth aforesaid) comes Levi Dinsmore of Groton in said county of Middlesex and on oath declares, that
he served in the war of the Revolution for the space of four years , against the common enemy , having served upwards of nine months at different periods , On the fifteenth day of April , in the year of our Lord One thousand Seven hundred and Eighty seven he enlisted upon the Continental establishment, into Capt. Isaac Brown's Company , was mustered at Concord Massachusetts , before Col. James Barrett , then joined his Company at Westchester , and proceeded with the First Division of Col. Bellows Regiment in the Massachusetts line , he was wounded at the Capture of Burgoyne , Army, in consequence of which he now stands on the Pension list of $100 per month , after he got better of this wound , he joined his Regiment, at Valley Forge , this Regiment marched to Rhode Island , and Genl. Sullivan transferred him, to the Invalids in Boston , spent him under the Command of Col. M c Donell from thence he proceeded with Col. Nathan Dine , the Artillery Camp of Observation , to Charleston in South Carolina , & continued in Genl. Lincoln's Family , about five months , when his term of three years for which he enlisted expired, and he returned to Boston where he received a discharge from Genl. Carleton of the Invalids , when he applied to be placed on the Pension list about 1795 . he sent his discharge to the Office of the Department of War . — He is now Seventy years old , carries in his Arm , the Ball he received at the Capture of Burgoyne , and is unable to perform much manual labor, is destitute of property and.
he stands in need of assistance from his country for his support, by reason of his reduced circumstances in life
Thus, made, subscribed, and sworn to, at Groton  Levi Dinsmore in said county of Middlesex Sam t Dana

To whom it may concern.
We the subscribers Selectmen of the town of Shirley in Massachusetts. Do hereby certify that Mr. Levi Hamsworth of said Town who (it is said) was a Soldier in the Army of the revolution is now a poor man in indigent circumstances.
Shirley May 8 th 1819.
Stephen Longley Nath l Livermore Thomas Whitney } Selectmen for Shirley

Larnworth Levi
American State Papers page 59
If not on any other page or list arrange on card data on card

Luci Farnsworth Memorial to the Lady of War 1819

To the Hon. John C. Calhoun Secy of War for the United States.
Levi Hansworth of Shirley, who has applied to be placed on the pension list under the act of March 18 th 1818. respectfully states, that he has thro' the hands of Judge Diner before whom he made his application received the same with the following indorsement thereon - Deserted - Rejected - the above allegation Deserted he begs leave wholly to deny and he hopes never to be called again to explain an aspersion so injurious to his character & from which he has already suffered in his fame & reputation. And he now requests leave to state the grounds on which this charge has been made against him - As stated in his declaration he enlisted for three years to commence in April A.D. 1777. while he belonged to Capt Brown's Company in Col o Bigelow's Reg t . he was wounded at the capture of Burgoyne's Army, after which he was placed on the list of invalids & sent to Boston where he remained under the command of Col o M c Farland, having become better of his wounds, Col o Nathan Rice, who now resides at Burlington in the State of Vermont, & who was then the Aid De Camp of Major Gen l Lincoln requested him to proceed with him to Charleston in South Carolina, & he accordingly did go with him as he then supposed it was proper & his duty to do, & he was at Charleston as a waiter to said Rice & in presence of his orders at the time of the capture of that place - When he departed from Boston.

Boston with Col. Rice the knavish were under the orders of a Lieut. Carleton, who as the appli- cant learned was displeased with his going with said Rice pursuant to what he then supposed a legal order & caused him to be returned as a deserter. After his three years expired he returned from Carolina to Boston where he found that he had been reported as a deserter, but it appearing that he had gone by direction of an officer of the Army, the said Carleton notwithstanding said return gave him an honorable discharge.
When he applied in 1795 to Congress for a pension, in consideration of the wound he had received, & by which his means of livelihood were impaired, the aforesaid return was objected to his admission, but he was by an act of Congress, placed upon the pension list. And he then procured the tes- timony of Col. Rice which with his other documents, will fully satisfy the fact he has above stated to have been wounded in the service of his Country, unjustly & falsely returned as a deserter , & to be deprived of the Bounty of his Country in his old age is a fate that he has not desired , which he humbly hopes will, not be decreed to him.
Wherefore he prays that all the Doc- uments on file in the War Office upon his former applications may be examined & if lost or mislaid that he may receive information thereof, so that he may

supply others & finally receive the benefit des- igned him by the Act aforesaid - And as in duty bound will ever pray.
Levi Farnsworth Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Middlesex ss. May 8, 1819. Then appeared the above named Levi Farnsworth and made oath that the allegations contained in the foregoing statement are true.
Before me, Thomas Whitney Justice Peace.

34 823 Copy INVALID.
File No. 34 823
Levi Harnsworth
Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 131
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Adm.  ©
The Judge, at Groton, Mass.

Mr. Gourd. a very worthy young man writes the enclosed re. -puting his father's pension - I know the old man & well remember that he was a pensioner as long ago as I can recollect such a thing - His papers must have been burned in the War Office, but can there be a doubt that those papers were perfect before Congress granted him pension? if not can - not you on the evidence

he has been so long a mercenary but Kinson under the new act — I know that he never was worth a hundred dollars since I can recall — I never will be
Please to tell me what to say to his son —
Yours O. Clarke June 23 rd